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by sxp 12d ago
Earth is round so the map should also be round.
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by sxp 13d ago
Booo...they should have gone with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollweide_projection
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by sxp 13d ago
Note that San Mateo closed off the street to all traffic and turned it into a pedestrian walking/eating area. So it's used for events. Market Street still allows traffic so people can't wander around in it.
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by sxp 17d ago
The Google blog post is more useful: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/gni... The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontari
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by sxp 1mo ago
I'm getting a 503 on the server, but the Wayback has an abstract. https://web.archive.org/web/20260815004033/https://studios.d... Vectorization of line art and sketches is an important problem i
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by sxp 1mo ago
> You can't have 24hour sunlight AND low altitude, low-latency orbits. The key issue is "low-latency". The DCs in space are about getting ~10x the energy/day compared to ground DCs. Moving from 300km to 1400km doesn&#
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by sxp 2mo ago
I'm not going to share because https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler... has a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. But I've paid for my copy of the
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by sxp 2mo ago
The protagonist who believes that information should be free and that scarcity is mostly artificial due to bad economic models. And that it would be possible to implement proper pro-human capitalism or communism if we had enough compute to
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by sxp 2mo ago
> I'd quite like a tool (running entirely locally on my own hardware, with no cloud service and no copyright-thieving grifters making bank on it via subscription fees) that digests a manuscript and derives a scene-by-scene timeline,
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by sxp 2mo ago
Yeah. Ironically, if he used an LLM to proofread his work, it would have told him that GAN's are generative not "generalized". That LLMs are primarily built on Transformers rather than GANs. And that they're more famou
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by sxp 2mo ago
While Stross is currently a neo-Luddite who doesn't believe in the Singularity, his book Accelerando is probably the best work of Singularitarian fiction ever written. It was written in the 2000s, starts in the 2010s, and covers the
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by sxp 2mo ago
From https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/netflix-exec-goes-ball... > Baillie claims he explained the reason why he had taken the drug but was investigated by Netflix. On March 18, 2026 a company
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by sxp 2mo ago
> For one, their analyses almost always amounted to post hoc justifications of the things they liked. "Almost always" is carrying a lot of weight here. Rationalists are ideologically diverse [1] when it comes to things like mon
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by sxp 2mo ago
For those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party The party has been variously characterised as left-wing and right-wing, as well as populist, nationalist and conservative. Some key issues for t
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by sxp 2mo ago
From TFA: Police in San Mateo, Calif., posted Monday on social media that they had apprehended a pair of teenagers from a Waymo driverless robotaxi after the company alerted authorities to suspected criminal activity. It's the late
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Waymo called the cops on teen riders, raising privacy concerns(npr.org)
2 points by sxp 2mo ago|3 comments
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by sxp 2mo ago
From TFA: > Rule from Mamdani administration ... targets ‘junk fees’ > The city is also targeting so-called “junk fees” that raise the final price of everything from apartments to sporting events, with a proposed rule that requi
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by sxp 2mo ago
It's unclear whether this junk fee law will have teeth. In theory, California has the same anti-drip pricing law, but restaurants have a specific carve out [1] which is bullshit because the drip pricing that most people complain about
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by sxp 5mo ago
Low sec runs by different rules from the gankers in high sec or the politics of null sec. Especially if you're in the Faction Warfare zones. The standard view in Eve is that if you're in a fair fight, you're playing the game
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by sxp 5mo ago
The interviews in section 4 are particularly informative for people trying to start a long distance relationship and want to determine compatibility with their partner. The items also apply to in-person romantic interactions, but multiplaye
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by sxp 6mo ago
On a similar note, you can use https://tarotpunk.app/deck-1 when planning is your next startup.
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by sxp 6mo ago
Nice game. But I think you need to work on better "opposites". E.g, "as of now" and "long ago" don't really seem to be opposite . Instead, maybe they're complex conjugates of each other. I.e, they ha
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by sxp 6mo ago
At a minimum, the app needs updates to handle breakages caused by OS updates. It needs moderators and other staff for legal reasons since Meta is large enough that there's always a significant liability risk for even a few users. It ne
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Tech boss uses AI and ChatGPT to create cancer vaccine for his dying dog(theaustralian.com.au)
17 points by sxp 6mo ago|3 comments
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by sxp 6mo ago
I found more details at https://www.rouast.com/blog/articles/vitallens-take-a-vital-... and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06892 . It's still vague beyond saying they trained an AI: "Vit
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by sxp 6mo ago
How does it work? Is it https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/evm/ ? I see the FAQ about VitalLens, but I couldn't find technical details. It's super cool. Thanks for sharing. I want to build a biofeedback ap
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by sxp 7mo ago
Ironically, Gemini says that it’s OK to use the Ultraplan for OpenClaw via gemini-cli because the Ultra plan has some API & Cloud credits baked into it. I think $100/mo but I can never figure out how Google billing works. I’ve past
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by sxp 7mo ago
To add some math to the discussion: - A human uses between 100W (naked human eating 2000kcal/day) to 10kW (first-world per capita energy consumption). - Frontier models need something like 1-10 MW-years to train. - Inference requires .
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by sxp 7mo ago
The article is forgetting about Anthropic which currently has the best agentic programmer and was the backbone for the recent OpenClaw assistants.
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by sxp 7mo ago
> "White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site..." > "The site is not selling drugs directly to American patients..." Just another layer of middlemen. They should go with the proper free market option and all

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